hi everybody Todd Helms with Eastman's hunting journals here today on this
beautiful roughly 0 degree day to bring you a gear lab review on the UCO gear
line of fire starting products so the first product is the UCO gear sweet fire
fire starter tabs these would be something that you would carry in your
pack and be able to light these with a match or some other external fire source
these are gonna burn for about six minutes they are made from a renewable
biofuels kind of a sugarcane waste material it's a fibrous tab so you can
pull it apart a little bit we're gonna try to light this thing up and see what
it does we'll see and it's going I've got more than enough flame there i've
wad up some of this grass and put it on here and get a little bit of a fire
started no doubt about that oh yeah look at that it's gonna take right off the
next product I'm going to talk about are the UCO gear sweet fire strike able fire
starters they're a tab of the same material but they have a light able tip
so what these do in my mind is I'm already envisioning eliminating matches
from my fire starting kit because if I've got a strike able tip on these it's
gonna function as a two in one so let's see how this thing works I'm gonna open
the box up they even come with a handy dandy little strike pad you see oh says
they have a burn time of about seven minutes similar to the sweet fire tab
and I think the reason they're gonna burn longer is they're bigger there's
more material here but you can see I've got a pretty well storm proof water
proof tip and this should light right up
well that was slick that lit right up and I can stand that up because it's a
pyramid shape and boy it ouch that thing is hot and it is going to town it is
burning like crazy down there but I should have lots and lots of time
to get a fire built around this thing sprinkle some of this finer stuff over
the top and that's catching already these will definitely be in my backpack
come fall this tab has still got plenty of burn life and it's smouldering away I
could get that I could get that flavor rekindled there's no problem with that
so the third and final product titian storm proof matches Titans come in this
nice kit it's got a waterproof gasket they also have a strike strip along the
side of this plastic container so I'm going to open them up in the top of the
lid I've got some tinder that I if I needed to use it I could and it's
designed to keep the top of your matches from being crushed or banging around and
keep them tight I'm gonna pull one of these out and the first thing you're
gonna see is the sheer size I like how long these are because that length of
that match not only provides some burn time roughly about 30 seconds to a
minute but it's gonna keep my fingers away from
that blaze that is almost like a flare and it's burning away like crazy and I'm
gonna set that down but as you can see that Titan match burned down all of the
incendiary material that was on the shaft of the match but it didn't burn
the match stick itself notice I got a fire started it would burn up and burn
away but that match he's gonna light in just about any kind of weather that
you're gonna have to deal with in the backcountry so the next time you're out
looking for fire starting products to carry in your backpack give the you UCO
gear products a try and I will definitely be carrying them in 2018